After seeing this today, it was a very different experience from the original version that was supposed to have been released.

There were actually quite a few minor differences and two major ones. The ending was fairly quick in the original version having Loomis talk his way into having Myer's drop his knife and release Laurie followed by the cops unloading their guns into him a la HALLOWEEN 4. One crane shot later and its over.

In the new one, it's dragged out to nearly 15 or 20 minutes of Myer's chasing Laurie into his house. There's also a glaring continuity error that is shown in close up no less than three times. It involves the death of one of the characters.

Thankfully, the vicious and totally stupid rape scene-escape was excised and a new, improved, although still questionable sequence replaces it. There's also a lot of trimmed dialog throughout and numerous bits added to existing scenes while others are either removed or reshot.

One scene that should have been left in was Loomis telling young Myer's that he convinced the suits to allow him to go outside in the "garden" followed by his repeated statement, "I need to get out of here.", as Loomis seems to ignore his rant. Now, in its place, is a pointless bit with Sheri Moon walking along a wall with Michael in tow telling his mother to put his mask back on.

There are a lot of these sprinkled throughout. It all does little to improve the movie but it did make it much more watchable. About the only lasting thing I can say about this movie is that it made want to go back and revisit the original again as well as part 2. That's the one success I can say Zombie unwittingly brought to his movie.